Edgar Anstey Movies

Packaged holidays for the elderly: a party of 'senior citizens' (60-plus) on a holiday which includes a special train from Newcastle to the Isle of...

Report No. 8 in a series of 13 topical films, produced since the far reaching plan for the modernisation and re-equipment of British Railways in 1955...

Electrification, and the raiIway men of Rugby adopt new methods and use new machines. In this film they tell in their own words of the great...

A compilation film about the complex railway systems of Great Britain, demonstrating the work and individual responsibilities of many departments.

Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire,...

Propaganda film, capturing “the work of the government’s training camps and instructional centres for unemployed men.” - NFA...

Sets out to persuade businesspeople of the advantages of going from city to city by train. How it gives them time to relax, work or sleep in comfort.

Impressions of a great city from daybreak to dusk. A roving camera and smooth theme music say more than words. London's traditional sights -...

Blue Pullman is a 1960 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie, which follows the development, preparation and a journey from Manchester to...

Two keen hostelling youths, Ken Moody and Brian Cotton, convert a boat in their native Selby into a youth hostel, and get the chance to air their...

Listen up, apprentices! Learn how to smooth and shape metal – an important wartime skill.

The film's contents are as follows: Merry-go-round coal trains - between collieries and power stations; Motorail; stations - Birmingham New St.,...

A look at life in the Fenlands (a coastal, marshy plain in eastern England) in 1940's.

Information on the different groups and organizations that are there to help the population during wartime.

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

There have been railways in this country for over three hundred years. In the nineteenth century, railways spread across Britain and changed the...